Berlusconi's wife Veronica Lario now wants a divorce, Italian media reported
this Sunday, just days after she publicly criticized his party's selection
of pretty young women to run in European elections. Berlusconi, who is a
72-year-old media tycoon and Italy's second-richest man with a fortune of
$6.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine, has said he was sorry his wife
had apparently believed "what she read in the papers," blaming a campaign
against him "hyped by the leftist press." Berlusconi's People of Freedom
party has been considering a number of starlets and television showgirls as
possible candidates in the June European elections, media reports say. As
party leader, Berlusconi has a powerful voice in who makes the list.
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